Thanks for the point!!
And yes, I did learn a bit more about the Brasilian auto scene.
Actually, as I have posted elsewhere here, I lived in Peru 1976-1978 (also Sweden 1974-1976 and Canada 1978-1979) so I had a fair amount of exposure to the South American auto/truck scene.
Because of the size of their population and economy, Brasil and Argentina have the most active motor industries in South America, and have produced a wide variety of vehicles based on primarily American and European origin vehicles with the Japanese vehicles coming in lately as well. As you know, many were adaptations/different versions of the original vehicles.
When we lived in Peru, my wife drove a brand new 1976 VW Beetle that was shipped from VW do Brasil as a kit and assembled by VW del Peru. A very appropriate car for the area and the time.
A bit off subject, but I wonder if anyone here would be interested in doing a photo story of American and Russian vehicles from the 1930's to the 1960's still circulating in Cuba. I only got to go there once in the 1970's and it was like a time machine then and I just watched a news story about an American citizen being held there just now and the darned cars on the streets look the same as when I was there 35 years ago.
Even Peru was like that in the 1970's due to their protective tariffs on importation of assembled cars and trucks. If I can get my scanner working again, I have lots of photos of 1930's and 1940's American vehicles in everyday use there.
One of my favourites was a 1934 Ford phaeton used as a taxi that worked an area near the office where I worked.
Just some thoughts.
